Are WD Cavier Blue dead???

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I am looking for WD 7500AAKS (Blue) but all the vendors said that blue drives are out of production, and I've heard is Green drives are for power saving, they are not that fast as blue and black drives are too much expensive. If blue drives are really out of production then can you guys recommend me a good drive which is fast and economical?
 
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136131

You're google skills are weak my son...

Actually, it does seem that the 7500AAKS drives are a little difficult to come by, but the the 640GB and lower capacities are quite easy to find. Personally, I'd go for the 640GB drive if you can live with 110GB less. The 640GB drives are 2 platter as opposed to 3 in the 750GB, and the 640GB are generally regarded as the best bang for your buck.
 
epimetheus said:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136131

You're google skills are weak my son...

Actually, it does seem that the 7500AAKS drives are a little difficult to come by, but the the 640GB and lower capacities are quite easy to find. Personally, I'd go for the 640GB drive if you can live with 110GB less. The 640GB drives are 2 platter as opposed to 3 in the 750GB, and the 640GB are generally regarded as the best bang for your buck.
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Thanks for the complement:):D. If you have a look at my signature. That rig was purchased in August last year. Even during that time 6400AAKS was running hot. I knew that within 6 months or more I will run with hard disk space crisis. But everyone suggested me that within 6 months hard disks will be released with double space with the same cost as 6400AAKS.

Unfortunately that didn't happen today. WD has recently released 2TB hard drive but that is the green and black version. In blue version there is no hard drive haveing space more than 750GB. That is the reason I suspected if WD has stopped producing those models. These Cavier Blue hard drives from WD has a balance between speed and price (black models are faster but they are way expensive, green models are mostly suitable for power saving). More than 750GB. I was looking for WD hard drives having space around 1TB - 1.5TB.

So can you suggest me a good hard drive within that category having good price value?
 
I can't really speak for any brands other than WD and Seagate, that's really all I use. If you need more than 640GB, you can probably go with Seagate, though a lot of people are nervous about them due to the firmware issues. Personally, I would not have any problem buying a Seagate drive right now, but it seems I'm more forgiving of them than most people. You also might want to consider the WD10EADS. It's going to cost a little more than that 750GB, but can be had for around $100. It performs a little better than the original WD Green's due to the 32MB cache. Also checkout Samsung, I've heard a lot of good things about their Spinpoint drives.
 
I personally own 4 of the WD 1 TB GP drives. If you are just using them for data storage, they are plenty fast, and save you a little cash to boot. If you are looking for a boot/os drive, then the modest price premium for the black edition is worth it. I think WD is finding that it is just not cost effective to stock 3 versions of each drive. I have a feeling that the Blue editions will fade away in the long run.

I personally have gone to SSDs for my OS drives. All of my bulk data is stored on my NAS, so my space requirements on my daily use systems is modest.

Don
 
DonDon said:
I personally own 4 of the WD 1 TB GP drives. If you are just using them for data storage, they are plenty fast, and save you a little cash to boot. If you are looking for a boot/os drive, then the modest price premium for the black edition is worth it. I think WD is finding that it is just not cost effective to stock 3 versions of each drive. I have a feeling that the Blue editions will fade away in the long run.

I personally have gone to SSDs for my OS drives. All of my bulk data is stored on my NAS, so my space requirements on my daily use systems is modest.

Don
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At this point of time WD Cavier Green are in great abundance. What is your general opinion about these drives. Are they as fast blue editions or even closer to that? I doubt. What I've heard is WD6400AAKS is as fast are old raptors having 150GB space. I don't know if Green drives can yeald the same kind of perfomance
 
The Green drives do take a performance hit. My original WD10EACS drives (4 platter) bench at around 85MB/s. The newer WD10EACS and WD10EADS drives (3 platter) get closer to 95MB/s. My WD6400AAKS drives easily peak at 120MB/s and sometimes break 130MB/s.

Edit: Of course these are sustained read rates. Access times are another story since the Green drives are essentially 5400RPM drives.
 
maverick786us said:
At this point of time WD Cavier Green are in great abundance. What is your general opinion about these drives. Are they as fast blue editions or even closer to that? I doubt. What I've heard is WD6400AAKS is as fast are old raptors having 150GB space. I don't know if Green drives can yeald the same kind of perfomance
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The last magnetic drive that I bought for an OS drive was a 500 gig Seagate 7200.11 drive. It is in the same speed class as the WD Black drives. The last OS drive I bought before that was a 36 gig raptor. That is obviously out dated by today's standards. The green drives prolly have the same sustained read rate as the old Raptors, but not the access time.

If this is going to be your OS drive, then you prolly want to stay away from the Green drives. They do sacrifice some performance to save energy. I use my Green drives (4 of them now) for storage only.

Don
 
The Black series drives really aren't that expensive...

However, if you'd like another 640GB AAKS I may be able to help out. I've been looking at the larger Blacks for a while now.
 
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